The last time I spent a late night biting my nails watching an election, I was in Venezuela observing the referendum. Like…
Let me, following my own roundabout route, suggest some of the factors all you political jockeys and the rest of us election-night…
Looked at realistically Osama bin Laden’s intervention in our presidential election was undoubtedly an act of immediate organizational weakness, not strength. Had…
Last week, on Tomdispatch.com, Teri Wills Allison, a mother from Texas whose soldier son is now in Iraq, wrote an up-close and…
Quotes of the day: “In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t…
“‘I feel we’re going to be here for years and years and years,’ said Lance Cpl. Edward Elston, 22, of Hackettstown, N.J.…
The year is 2030 and President Pierce Bush addresses the nation: “My fellow countrymen, in the past, enemies of America required massed…
Every now and then, an article catches my eye that seems to sum up the worst of Washington-based access journalism (“just the…
On October 31, 2003, in a piece called The Time of Withdrawal I wrote: “I think one thing is predictable in a…
If the United States is the Earth’s last great imperial power, then the election of its leader is indeed a global event.…
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